Preparatory work on porting LMDE 6 to the PowerPC arch has begun. The idea behind this project is that this distribution will run on modern PowerPC computers like Mirari and the PowerPC-notebook.
LMDE 6 PPC ships with a cinnamon desktop. The porting comprises most packages as found in Linux Mint Debian Edition 6. Some packages will not be included in LMDE 6 PPC. The serious work (i.e. compiling arch dependent packages) has been done. The packages have been uploaded to the MintPPC server and installation tests will be done. I will update soon with more information.
This port is based on Debian unstable (sid), just like MintPPC, as there is no longer a stable powerpc Debian release since “Jessie”, i.e. Debian 8, released in 2015.
I have a working installation of LMDE 6 PPC now 🙂 The Debian branding issue has been solved. The only thing that needs to be done now is testing on real hardware, as I run this system in QEMU Power10. It is very slow.
Link to screenshot:
https://forums.macrumors.com/attachments/lmde6ppc-png.2514890/